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How to use work in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Work means labour, occupation, job. Example: “My work involves a lot of travel.”

Examples of work by meaning

nounLabour, occupation, job.

  • My work involves a lot of travel.
  • Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page...

nounThe place where one is employed.

  • He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.

nounOne's employer.

  • I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.

nounEffort expended on a particular task.

  • Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
  • Fifteen years of hard work went into the property's creation, which was undertaken by a legion of architects, designers, preservation and restoration experts, engineers, consultants, and artists.2026 May, Julie Coe, “The Rest is History”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 36

nounSustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

  • We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
  • We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
  • Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...

nounSomething on which effort is expended.

  • There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.

nounCosmetic surgery.

  • has had a lot of work done
  • Luckily, our eyes have grown accustomed after decades of Botox, fillers and extreme “work” going mainstream, so we don’t notice the weirdness and read it instead as maximum hotness.2025 May 20, Marina Hyde, “Was this a hen do or a humanitarian mission to liberate Paris? Either way, give Lauren Sánchez an award”, in The...

nounPrison gang violence.

  • putting in work

More sentences with work

  • I don’t know all the theoretical abracadabra about how it works, I’m only its pilot.From the entry abracadabra
  • The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.From the entry color
  • In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.From the entry zero
  • The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object.From the entry secret
  • Japanese IMEs can work with both QWERTY keyboards and Japanese keyboards.From the entry IME
  • All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.From the entry unemployment
  • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.From the entry meeting
  • Taking a break from work seems to have done her a world of good.From the entry world
  • He took all the credit for the project, although he had done almost none of the work.From the entry take
  • The play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's early works.From the entry early
  • She had to accelerate her work pace to meet the deadline.From the entry accelerate
  • This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.From the entry map
  • 'Where does he work?' — 'I think he's still at the solicitors.'From the entry at
  • Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.From the entry case
  • He gave us a comparative example to illustrate how the human mind works.From the entry comparative
  • The geologists were responsible for keeping the work within the mill.From the entry mill
  • If he leave the company, I'll have to work all the harder.From the entry all
  • And, what's even worse, I have to work on Sunday too.From the entry what
  • With his recent divorce still fresh in his mind, he was unable to concentrate on his work.From the entry fresh
  • By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.From the entry habit
  • He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.From the entry hack
  • I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.From the entry hack
  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.From the entry plum
  • The boss of the company was going to Spain for work.From the entry boss
  • Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.From the entry down
  • The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.From the entry catch
  • I left my car at home and took a bus to work.From the entry leave

Meaning of work

  1. noun Labour, occupation, job.
  2. noun The place where one is employed.
  3. noun One's employer.

Full definition of work

Questions about work in a sentence

How do you use work in a sentence?
Work is used as a noun and verb. For example: “My work involves a lot of travel.”
What is a short sentence with work?
“putting in work”
What does work mean?
Work means labour, occupation, job.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: work (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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